#our experiences are not universal!!!’

[plusultraetc]

ONE MORE THING

Something that’s becoming more and more relevant the more I write is deciding which fics fit in the Shinsou expansion pack (which is intended to be as close to canon compliant as possible) and which belong outside of it. That being said, in my brain a lot of my Shinsou fics take place in the same timeline/universe, so part of the reason I like writing what he says vs what he thinks so much is that I like to think as he grows more comfortable & confident, especially after he gets approved for the Hero Course, he starts to be a little more genuinely expressive around people, which includes getting to joke around more.

It's basically the difference between this interaction:

and this one:

21 & shinsou ?

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

TYSM FOR SENDING AN ASK <3

It’s probably pretty obvious that I Love Writing Shinsou, but I think he may also be the character I’m most comfortable writing at this point? That’s actually why he has a tendency to sneak into fics featuring characters or genres I’m unsure about; he was my rock when I was writing ‘there’s no good tricks but old ones’ as well as the second, angstier part of the Star Wars au (which I am chewing on again when I have the brain space for it :D)

So there are a lot of things I love to do when writing him!! One favorite is probably making him outwardly polite—particularly to his teachers and older UA peers—but inwardly a little sassy, or sometimes just kind of goofy. Basically I really like writing his narration, as well as the occasions when another POV character is aware enough to kind of know what’s going on in his head that he isn’t saying it loud.

Something I dislike is that I feel I have a tendency to make him kinda?? too anxious?? Idk I feel like my own anxiety sometimes comes through too much in his POV, and I spend a lot of my editing time with Shinsou telling him to calm down lol. I actually have two (2) (!!) finished Shinsou fics I haven’t posted yet because they’re just several thousand words of anxiety spiral I don’t know how to fix 😭

[laceratedlamiaceae]

This bit here is such a testament to Con O'Neill's acting because it's so painfully real.

You're on the verge of breaking into tears, but you think you have it under control. Then one tiny little thing has it all unraveling, and you open your mouth to say you're fine but it gets caught in your throat and you can feel the sob threatening to leap out of your chest and you hate yourself for not being able to control it. You clench your fists and take a breath and look upward, hoping to summon the strength to delay the crying until you can be alone, but it doesn't come and you're left to collapse into a pathetic sobbing mess right in front of everybody

[shima-draws]

I’ve seen lots of these going around and wanted to try my hand at my own 👀

[ghostly-cabbage]

We need to talk about the worst thing about making AUs....

The fact that then when you inevitably think about crossovers you don't want the crossover with the canon you want it with your specific AU. Your brain worms, your circus, but THEN WHAT?

Oh, yeah, to understand this crossover you need to go read this entirely different fic/series? Girl help 😭 you can't do that

[martianbugsbunny]

BITCH they had a WHOLE LOTTA NERVE to SPECIFICALLY HAVE STEVE SAY "bro, it's hard to date when nobody has shared life experience with u"

......IN THE MOVIE WHERE THE GUY WITH SO MANY SHARED LIFE EXPERIENCES SHOWS THE FUCK BACK UP. THE GUY WHO LIVED IN 1940S NY WITH HIM. THE GUY WHO SERVED IN WW2 WITH HIM. THE GUY WHO GOT THE SUPERSOLDIER SERUM LIKE HE DID. THE GUY WHO MANAGED TO STILL BE ALIVE AND LIKE THIRTY IN THE 2000S JUST LIKE STEVE. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING. WHY WERE THEY SO STUPID

[oifaaa]

Getting some insane gun takes on my batman gun post so just to make it 100% clear I'm anti gun I think guns are stupid and I do think their one use is to kill things whether that be people or animals and the average person just does not need to own them okay thanks

[blueberryblowfly]

rewatching the update trailers (where i get most of my characterization for the players) and just thinking abt what could have been

alex, the fighter type, easily bored and adventurous! steve is exited by new ores and knows just how to use them! an inventor even! but spooked easily... they compliment eachother :]

them spotted... what have they done..

efe spotted!!! one of the only ones besides steve who wore armor, with trim no less!

i like them :]

[casualavocados]

Do you think I should buy a birthday cake? But I've been stood up three times. [...] Although I don't know what happened between you and your friend, it's always happier to spend your birthday with someone you like.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 04

[makiinspace]

let me check your wounds

[anti-au]

Some wholesome stuff, we guess

There is a period in time where Irep and Peri are friends. Genuinely friends. They have sleepovers and hangout outside of school (though, Peri does bully Irep in school still— he has an image to uphold. This only hurts and confuses Irep, but, whatever. At least he has a friend other than Sammy Sweetsparkle.)

They have sleepovers at Anti-Cosmo's castle— Irep simply tells Cosmo and Wanda he's trying to reconnect with his dad. Which, is partly true. Anyway. The two do a lot of things at these sleepovers, games, talking, painting each other's nails, watching movies— cuddles. All of it.

Anyway. We have a small scene where Peri and Irep are getting ready for bed.

Irep, being lazy (and using his magic a lot), is just chilling in bed after poofing his pj's on. Peri, however, is used to not using his magic for stuff like this. So, he just tells Irep to look away as he gets changed. Which! Irep does!! Peri also turns around, so nothing gets seen. (Also he's wearing a binder.)

But when someone's getting changed right in front of you it's pretty easy to see something on accident. Irep catching a glimpse of his stretch marks (from magical buildup as a kid) on accident, and questioning him about them. Peri being hesitant to respond, and Irep picking up on how he's a little self conscious about them. However Irep finds them kind of cute. Like some people find freckles cute. The conversation might go sort of like this?

"Oh, they're kinda cute."

"Wh— Huh?"

"I said they're cute."

After Peri finishes getting ready Irep just pulling him in for a little comfort cuddle. It's a lot more comfortable than trying to sleep on the opposite sides of the bed, though Irep doesn't mind sleeping on the ceiling like a bat. What Irep doesn't know is that Peri finds it absolutely adorable when he wakes up to find Irep's face buried in his neck, he knows it's comforting for him.

It's a habit Irep developed during their sleepovers, but it stays with him for life. Whenever he's hugged by someone he's genuinely comfortable with, he ends up hiding his face in their neck/shoulder.

They both find these smaller things about each other endearing. It's a shame the two are destined to hate each other.

[vigilskeep]

every time i post about what i think is going on in da2 act 3, all tags filter into three groups: “? this is textually what happened” or “wow da2 would have been so good if this was what happened” or “omg i’d never even considered this interpretation of what happened”. on the same post. every time

[katetorias]

yes a sense of unity and collective “You” is good for systems to have but why are some people on this website acting like letting alters have individual sense of selves is going to tank your chances of recovery. denying parts their selfhood would involve not listening to them, accommodating or helping them feel happy (which is really hard to do as part of a system!!! for obvious reasons!!!!!)

forcing them to consider themselves just one person when their lived experiences do not match up with that is literally making things worse. some systems feel like they have been just one person their whole life, some don’t! some systems are very differentiated from each other, some aren’t!!

systems are as uniquely individual as literally every person on earth! everyone on this planet has lived different lives from each other and in turn will experience the same things differently from one another. that is like a very simple thing to grasp. it is very easy to not be ableist.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

saw some speculation on FranklyDear in relation to the audios and i want to toss my two cents in

so all the thing's i've been seeing have been people talking about how they're a couple, but they're not acting like it, so that must be Playfellow's influence making them put distance between each other

but i immediately interpreted it as - they're not there yet. there might be feelings, but they aren't Together. cause in the 14 bug audios, i feel like it's pretty clear that these are snapshots of the neighborhood outside of the show. cameras aren't rolling, there are no influences, it's the neighbors just Existing on their own dime

'cause the conversations are more natural! the characters seem more nuanced! there aren't any sound effects! so if FranklyDear is already established, wouldn't we have "seen" that in their shared audio 8-14? wouldn't Eddie have just called Frank Frank, without the immediate (and somewhat flustered) correction to Mr. Frankly? and wouldn't Frank call him Eddie instead of Mr. Dear? plus, idk about y'all, but that scene was a lil romantically charged. a little flirty - especially from Frank's side. the kind of tension you get from budding emotions, not fully-realized ones

they just seem to be in a before state. the beginning stages. and anyway, i remember Clown saying that revealing FranklyDear as an endgame couple was sort of an Accident? i think we were meant to watch it evolve and figure it out along with the characters, the way we will with any other relationships (that we Definitely are not aware of / confident about yet).

we're still only in the prologue of the story, so it'd make so much sense if Frank and Eddie are not yet Involved. we're on this journey With them

[melon-official]

She wails as though a part of her has died.

oh man. i picked up the sidestory to @just-a-carrot's five-arc horror epic a couple days ago and i'm so glad i did. i'll probably be talking nonstop and/or drawing about it for days

there's a handful of whiteboard doodles with other characters under the cut, but rly i just wanted to pay a homage to the scene that hit me the hardest... enjoy

[samuelroukin]

honestly i won’t lie it’s really funny that half the fandom had a great time even if they’re sad about izzy and the other half is just genuinely heartbroken lol